My notion about any artist is that we honor him best by reading him, by playing his music, by seeing his plays or by looking at his pictures. We don’t need to fall all over ourselves with adjectives and epithets. Let’s play him more.

Jacques Barzun (1907-2012) French-American historian, educator, polymath

Interview (1986-12-04) by John C. Tibbetts, “Jacques Barzun on Robert Schumann”
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